THE VESTA E-BOOK / £17

For centuries, Vesta, known as Hestia in the Greek pantheon, has been remembered as the quiet, chaste keeper of the hearth. The hearth was a special fireplace within the home or in temples, but it was far more than a practical source of heat. It served as the symbolic centre of life itself. But what if that was only part of the story?

What if the Virgin was never just about celibacy, but about self-possession? Some accounts even suggest that these women worked with erotic and tantric intelligence, not as performance, but as healing. This book asks the question most people are too afraid to ask. What happens when we reclaim the Virgin as powerful, erotic, and whole?

In my view, Vesta appears as the mistress, the trad wife, and the artistic muse. Read on to discover why.

Examples in the E-book: Joan Didion, Tina Turner, Rihanna, Zendaya, Anaïs Nin and more.